Maintain nuclear arsenal

lorexxx, said, "Smart people pick up and move to a better safer location..dumb people just rebuild in the same spot and pray for more desasters to collect more insurance money." Must be talking about the idiots in Minot who live in the flood zone!

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I'm really worried. I think we need more guns.

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Hopeless...Aircraft Carrier...Old news...China Super Tankers (10) being built to carry Keystone Oil back home...Old news...Hoeven and Heitkamp in support of Keystone... Current news.....Charges of Treason against some Congressional supporters ....future news...

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If you get a chance or care to see how advanced China’s Navel Fleet has come in the last few years...google up their new aircraft carrier(nuclear of course) @ bbs.voc.c o m.cn

We can no longer afford to compete in this world of uncertainty anymore. Especially after Obuma gets done with destroying this country.

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There is no such word as "like-thinking." It doesn't exist. The phrase doesn't even make sense.

Again, a lack of language skills reflects a deficient mind.

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The word "like-thinking" could be substituted by something more appropriate, I'll give you that, namexxx.

But the rest of the snark I'll just have to tune out...

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For crying out loud, a bonfire can get out of hand and do a lot of destruction. All sources of energy have to be handled correctly and wisely, no matter what type of energy we're talking.

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"and other like-thinking members of Congress"

There is no such word as "like-thinking." The MDN editorial board's writing is as pathetic and ridiculous as their opinions.

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I think all propaganda is a disaster. Look out for that boogyman next time you get an x-ray. All radiation requires a source and I will not believe that you will be source of radiation just because you got an x-ray. Nuclear reactors are allot like microwave ovens except they make power instead of consuming it. Study the one micron wavelength to see how it effects oxygen molecules. The future is bright with nuclear energy!

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EarlyBird you do not consider the episode in Japan NOT a NUCLEAR disaster? There is a whole town that will never be able to be habitable again!!!

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As part of the modern odyssey the tsunami did bring that certain fate to that and those who live and build to close to water. There was a lesson dealt out that cannot be forgotten, move to higher and dryer ground. They plan to shut down that location in a couple decades when they have fully utilized the energy source in place and move it further inland. In the USA we have the perfect locations for as many reactor sites as we need, the old underground coalmines have an environment that is controllable. With the roads and electric power lines already in place the underground coalmines being located mostly in the eastern USA, where most of the population is, are perfect for the future nuclear program.

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WA, there was not. Although there was structural damage the four reactors are still churning out electricity. The Japanese are letting the reactors finish utilizing the fuel rods that are in place which will take several decades.

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EarlyBird didn't Japan have a major nuclear disaster after the sunami?

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It is very remarkable that the only Nation (Japan) to ever have a Nuclear Bomb used on it in war is the leader in developing safe and effective use of nuclear energy. It is inevitable that someday nuclear energy will be the primary source of energy on this planet and for that occasion the powers that be in charge of our energy policies now are the stakeholders in place to dole out nuclear energy as a controlling entity just as oil is now. That future should be altered now while we may still have a tiny chance.

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Although a method is available to degrade the weapons grade material down to fuel rods for reactors. The Japanese have superseded the US in Nuclear Energy R&D with the Plutonium breeder reactor, it actually somehow replaces the energy it burns with more energy. They have nuclear powered pacemakers they remove from people when they pass away also. Anyway there is no such thing as nuclear waste if we can use it to make electricity. I personally believe the oil is an insulator that helps keep the surface temperatures of the planet down and should stay where it is. The nuclear energy (uranium) was put near the surface for us for some reason I do believe.

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The problem with retiring nuclear weapons is they suddenly become nuclear waste. The nuclear BOOOOGY MAN gonna get you!! hahhahaa!!!

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As in many cases, this is not nearly as clear cut as it seems on the surface. If you can't see the forest from the trees, sometimes you can't see the trees if you're too far from the forest.

Here's a novel idea, maybe try asking the military whether there are nuclear weapons that they don't need. Some weapons could be old and inordinately expensive to repair and maintain. Other weapons may have had their strategic value supplanted by new methods or technology.

Decreasing the number of nuclear weapons might actually improve our military capability if it frees up money and resources for more effective uses.

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h4c this whole sequestor deal was all cooked up by your republican friends in hopes that after the election when their boy Romney got elected they would deal with it then. It kind of blew up in their faces.

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H4c what do you suppose we do with North Korea and Iran that we are not doing already?

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After Obama gets done with gutting our military, we might as well level the Nuclear bomb playing field and gut it as well. We can level it more with giving our military secrets to China and any other nation that wants them.

No need to develop new weapons either, as that would not be fair and can’t afford them anyway. Our enemies probably know the location of our submarine missile fleet so why maintain them either.

Might closely parallel thoughts of some two hundred years ago. As it reflects taking away our Constitutional Rights to bare arms. And we are initiating in this country to do the opposite of Jefferson's thinking.

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."-- Thomas Jefferson

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I regrettably agree with leftwing.

New tech always wins out in military ventures. Check military history over the ages: the innovations lead to the advantages.

Can you say Roman phalanx? Or German blitzkrieg? How about Little Boy and Fat Man?

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Like I have said in the past.Land based missile days are numbered.Face it,Like or not.

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Why not make use of the ones we have?

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The idea that a nuclear arsenal might act as a deterrent to a country such as Iran and especially North Korea is a bit ridic to say the least. Such a view severely underestimates (or simply discounts) the overwhelming might of America's conventional forces, and completely misunderstands the strategy behind those countries' nuclear programmes. A regime like the one in Iran would never give a nuclear bomb to a terrorist group - chances are at least as likely that it would be detonated in Tehran as it would in Tel Aviv. Their bombs (NK) or attempts to build bombs (Iran) are simply bargaining chips employed by otherwise toppling regimes that are in no way influenced by America's nuclear arsenal. Meanwhile the billions we spend swabbing the dust off our nuclear triad does nothing, akin to France's fabulous Maginot Line. We risk complacency preparing for old wars, and anyway wouldn't propose nuclear disarmament if there wasn't something far more lethal waiting in the wings.

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Worried never seems to be WORRIED about our Nations debt and will defend Obama’s spending and this is again hypocritical on your part. Spend, spend spend only as you and your dictator sees fit.

You could liken it to Obama’s war on guns; only criminals will end up with them and rogue nations will continue to pursue their Nuclear ambitions.

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